Get off your butt and stop complaining...

I have to thank Connie for sending this to me... If I start complaining... please kick me. Love you all more than my luggage! Hugs, smooches and gropes!

Festival time..

It's Jazz Festival time in Montreal... Plan on taking the Chicklet.. Maybe we'll go see this guy play out at one of the free shows.. Wow! Or this guy.. Robin Nolan (he has a sweet gypsy guitar) Love you all more than my luggage! Hugs, smooches and gropes!

Drifting...

BestAudioCodes.com Morgen gave us several definitions of the word drifting and its variants… I wondered what I could write about for this word… and as I looked over the definitions it all became clear, a song started playing in my head… I've been through so many changes over the past months, actually, over the past year. I think I may have found myself, found my hapiness... I've drifted into a world of wonderful people, many of whom I'll meet soon... Here goes... A year ago I was drifting, I felt lost, like nothing much was anchoring me to anything. The only thing keeping me in the world and connected was my sweet girl. I wasn’t feeling the passion I normally have for music, I wasn’t connecting with anyone, and I was like a piece of driftwood following the flow of the waves, wherever it was taking me, be it in calm weather or stormy seas. Then, early in 2006 I heard a voice, which led me to a message board because I was curious… pretty soon I made a precious friend. Then many more. We shared a passion for this voice, the man it came from, our souls electrified. Some of the men in our group have chided some of the ladies lately by saying: ‘It’s about the music’, with this tone of superiority and exasperation... well gentlemen, it ain’t! It started with the music, but for many of us, it became about what the music has come to represent. And for me, that music represents Love and Salvation. It’s never just about notes… music brings us to places, states of being, it evokes our sense memory, it stirs emotions, it connects us with ourselves, with humanity. So, what does music mean to you? Now, I drift to the music… and what a trip! Good thing I've got a lot of nice luggage filled with laughs, tears, love, and friendship to take with me on my journey.. to the Places I've Been, and the ones I have yet to visit. Drifting Day after day, I'm more confused Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain You know that's a game that I hate to loose And I'm feelin' the strain Ain't it a shame Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Beginnin' to think that I'm wastin' time I don't understand the things I do The world outside looks so unkind Now I'm countin' on you To carry me through Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Yea, give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away And when my mind is free You know a melody can move me And when I'm feelin' blue The guitar's comin' through To soothe me Thanks for the joy that you've given me I want you to know I believe in your song And rhythm and rhyme and harmony You help me along Makin' me strong Oh, give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Oh-ho, ah-no Give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Hey, hey, hey, yeah Give me the beat boys and free my soul I wanna get lost in your rock n roll And drift away Na, Na, now won't ya Won't ya take me Oh-ha, take me Love you all more than my luggage! Hugs, smooches and gropes!